Order-indicator.



No. 743,397. PATBNTED Nov. s, 1903.

' E. sT. c. 4MYNOLDS.

oRDBR INDICATOR. APPLICATION FILED IAB..` 13.- 1903.

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HARRY Sr. C. REYNOLDS, O E

Patented November 3, 190B.

PATENT OEEICEJ NEW riAvEN, CONNECTICUT.

ORDER-INDICATORa SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,397, dated November 3, 1903.

Application filed March 13, 1903.

To all whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, HARRY ST. C. REYNOLDS, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Order-Indicators; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, iii- Figure 1, a view in front elevation of an order-indicator constructed in accordance with my invention, showing one strip of springfingers upon each roll; Fig. 2, a side view of the same; Fig. 3, a broken front view of a Section of springfingers detached and enlarged; Fig. 4, an edge view of the same; Fig. 5, a perspective view of a card or ticket adapted to be used in connection therewith; Fig. 6, a plan view of a section of spring-iingers formed from wire; Fig. 7 a top or edge view of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in order indicators-that is, an indicator adapted to receive cards or tickets representing numbers of orders received-whereby a convenient record may be kept of unlled or partially-nlled orders, and is an improvement on the invention for which Letters Patent of the United States No. 588,805 were granted August 24, 1897, to William H. Reynolds. Inthis patent two or more day-boards were employed and a month-board,the boards having holes arranged in series and adapted to receive pegs or pins having recesses in their outer ends for the reception of disks containing figures or characters to indicate orders, different-colored disks being employed to indicate orders which werepartially lled.

The object of this invention is to arrangel day and month boards in the form of drums or rollers and mount them one above the other in a standard inwhich they may be conveniently revolved; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

As herein shown, I preferably employ a standard comprising a base 2, uprights 3 4, and top 5, the top connecting the upper ends of the uprights, which are also connected by Serial No. 147,580. (No model.)

transverse bars 6 7. The frame and bars may be formed from wood or metal, and preferably in the base 2 a drawer 8 will be located. 5 5 Between the top 5 and the bar 6 is a shaft 9, carrying heads or disks-10,more or less in number, the shafts extending through the uprights and being provided at their outer ends with knurled inger-buttons l1. Se- 6o cured to the heads are rows of clips or indicator-receivers 12, the number of rows depending upon the size of the indicator. In Fig. 1 only one row is shown to avoid confusion. In Fig. 2, however, eight rows are shown. Preferably twelve clips will be arranged iireach row, and upon the lower edge ofthe top 5 numbers from 1 to 12 willbe placed in line with the clips. These clips are preferably formed from strips of metal hav- 7o ing fingers 13 14, the fingers 14 being doubled upon the ngers 13, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. Between the transverse bars 6 and 7 a second shaft 15 is arranged, carrying heads 16 and being provided with thumb-buttons 75 17, and to these heads strips of clips 18 are attached. Between the bar 7 and the base 2 a third shaft 19 is arranged, carrying heads 20 and adapted to be turned by thumb-buttons 21. (While lhave shown anumber of heads 8o or disks on each shaft, it is not essentialthat more than two be employed, these being arranged at opposite ends of the shaft.) To these heads strips 22 of clips are connected. Preferably l provide thirty-one clips on each strip on the two lower rolls, and the ba'rs 6 and 7 are provided with numbers from 1 to 31, arranged in line with the clips carried by the rolls. Iemploytheterin rolls, as the heads with the strips of fingers consti- 9c. tute rolls or cages. These clips are adapted toreceive cards or tickets 23, which may bc of any desired color.

Instead of forming the clips or indicatorreceivers from strips of metal, they may be formed from wire, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, in which a strip of wire 24 is'bent into U shape and the lower portion of the U turned upward to form a finger 25, adapted to hold a card or ticket 23 in the same way as the metal rc u fingers above described.

If desired, wires 26 may be arranged between the series of clips to separate the circumferential rows.

The system employed for the use of this del. An order-indicator compris-ing a frame, vice is similar to that employed in the above a day-roll and a month-roll, one arranged patent-namely, for the first month the upabove the other and independently rotatable, per day-roll will be used and tickets inserted said rolls provided with transverse rows of 5 in the first annular row of clips indicating indicator-receivers and adapted to be freely 3o the number of orders received that day. As revolved in the frame, substantially as dethe orders of this day are illed the tickets scribed. will be removed, or if the orders are partially 2. An order-indicator comprising a base, filled the tickets will be replaced by another two uprights and a top,'two transverse bars lo ticket bearing the same number but with a between the base and top, the top and trans- 35 different color, and so on through the month. verse bars being suitably numbered, shafts For the second month the lower day-roll will mounted between said bars, top and base, be used in the same way. At the beginning heads mounted on said shafts and adapted to of the third month all the tickets remaining be turned thereby, clips secured to said heads x5 upon the iirst roll will be removed and placed and arranged in longitudinal and circumfer- 4o in the first circumferential row of clips in the ential rows correspondingr to, and in alinetop or month roll and the first day-roll beA ment with a series of numbers on the top and used for the third month, and so on. By arbars, substantially as described. ranging the clips in the form of drums or In testimony whereof I have signed this 2o rolls economy of space is secured and the speciication in the presence of two subscrib- 45 rolls may be conveniently examined from ing Witnesses. time to time as required. Y HARRY ST. C. REYNOLDS.

Having fully described my invention, what Witnesses: I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters IDA M. REYNOLDS, z 5 Patent, is` RALPH W. LANGLEY. 

